james komi mccain's account comes as the f.b.i. investigation led by special counsel robert mueller continues we dig killis partisan investigations trump has repeatedly criticized the probe into whether russia meddled in the twenty sixteen election calling it a witch hunt if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war and investigation a senate committee is reportedly wrapping up its own russia probe a report this week said they've uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between trump's campaign and the kremlin kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. the senior democrat on the u.s. senate foreign relations committee wants the trumpet ministration to hunt the documents relating to the killing of saudi journalists. senator bob menendez sent

a letter to secretary of state mike. requesting records about whether any senior saudi official including the crown prince mohammed bin soundman was responsible for his death a shock he was killed last october after he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul his body has never been found michaela in washington has more. well it's another salvato in the ongoing struggle between congress and the trump administration over the investigation into the death of jamal khashoggi the senior democrat on the senate foreign intelligence committee has sent a letter to the secretary of state demanding that all material relevant to the investigation by the department into the murder of jamal khashoggi be handed over to the senate by february the twenty eighth now back in october the senate sent to the trumpet ministration a letter demanding a full investigation into the death and to report back within one hundred twenty days or that report that period expired the sloss friday there was no response from

the trumpet ministration apart from a letter from the secretary of state outlining the sanctions that have been imposed against seventeen saudi individuals in connection with the murder of jamal khashoggi however bob menendez insists that this is simply not enough pointing out too that the senate had requested the trump administration to investigate specifically the possible involvement of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so this once again heightening this ongoing struggle between congress and the trumpet ministration into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and the comfortability for that particular death being attributed perhaps to senior saudi leaders. lots more still to come here on the news hour including an explosion targeting a military convoy in the indian administered kashmir kills at least thirty nine people. in sport history for slovakia the world championships in sweden that's all

still to come. to rival meetings addressing instability in the middle east have wrapped up in europe in sochi russia president hosted turkish and iranian leaders for talks on how to end the war in syria and what comes next while in poland the u.s. stepped up its efforts to isolate iran at a conference attended by sixty nations well israel's prime minister was the only foreign head of state to attend with many european countries sending low level representatives well let's start with a summit in sochi with three countries vying to be the key foreign players in syria once the u.s. has this report from tehran. this so-called guarantors of the syrian peace process the presidents of russia iran in turkey are partners in the astronaut negotiating framework the leaders met to find consensus on how to carve up syrian territory

following the planned u.s. withdrawal of american troops from an area under the control of the kurdish group the y. peachy it was clear even before the summit began that they didn't agree russia and iran told turkey that the syrian government should we gain control of northeast syria once u.s. troops leave at any plan to set up a safe zone in syria along its borders would need the consent of president bashar assad's government the turkish government's concerns should be taken into consideration we believe cooperation with the legal government of syria and deployment of syrian soldiers alongside international borders is going to be more sustainable but iran continues to be willing a long side russian friends to play its role in order to ensure friendship between syria and turkey. turkey's president. once a close friend of the syrian president has been a staunch supporter of the opposition since the uprising began in two thousand and

eleven. recently acknowledged that there have been low level contacts between turkey's and syria's intelligence agencies government. security. and. russia also have another demand they want turkey to clear a demilitarized zone from fighters in. the province is under the control of. a group many in the international community consider. i'd like to stress the creation of the it. is a temporary measure the rest of the rebels should. that may be a threat of

a russian backed syrian government offensive that turkey wants to prevent so as not to cause a humanitarian crisis on its border. syrian people especially and our brothers and sisters are trying to stay alive they've suffered enough and pizza. we will continue to do what we should be doing. we are determined to make the situation worse the strategic interests of russia iran and turkey not just in syria means their differences are unlikely to affect their alliance but turkey's feeling the pressure. to. meanwhile the u.s. and israel have singled out iran as the main obstacle to peace in the middle east during two days of talks in poland the us vice president also said he was saddened by europe's stance on terror on and called on the e.u. to withdraw from the twenty fifty nuclear deal. reports from the capitol hill the u.s. may have changed the title of the warsaw meeting but that's had little impact on

its focus from the outset it was clear that this was a gathering game that's garnering support for american and israeli policies against iran you can't achieve peace and stability middle east without running around it's just not there my name and eleven. syria and iraq. preacher who did some us and has a whole lot of these are real threats there are others as well but you can't get peace in the middle east without pushing. the israeli prime minister who has one eye on the general election in april went one step further yesterday. and i struggled turning. some sixteen foreign ministers representatives of dozens of government. and israeli prime minister. foreign ministers. arab countries stood together and spoke. too soon or so far

in unity against a common threat to remain here. the government of iran whose president was meeting sarkisian russian counterparts in the black sea resort of sochi described the conference in poland as a circus the u.s. said sixteen nations had convened in poland as requested but this agreement among the participants was evident some european union countries some low level diplomats apparently not happy with washington's with the pool from the iran nuclear deal american vice president mike pence said he was saddened at the psalms. the time has come for our european partners to stand with us and the runnion people. to stand with our allies and friends in the region. the time has come for our european partners to withdraw from the around nuclear deal and join with us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary to give the iranian people the region and the world the peace security and freedom they deserve arguably the biggest

beneficiary from the war so conference was benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister meeting publicly with senior ministers from saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and on none furthering his agenda of normalization with arab governments the warsaw meeting was intended to for their peace and security in the middle east however critics will say that it may have very well done the opposite by enabling netanyahu government international loring continues to illegally occupy arab learns by favoring a more confrontational this approach rather than a diplomatic one when it comes to iran. or so well for more on this let's speak to in washington d.c. he's a former syria advisor to samantha power who served as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. under president barack obama while let's talk first about the syria conference in sochi what does this meeting signify in terms of russia turkey iran and how they hope to resolve the war even with competing strategic interests. thank you

for having you know what it signifies for us and force most is that these three countries are the actual stakeholders with the most to gain and lose especially in light of the announcement of the turn it is rationed that they're going to be withdrawing their troops and they have been the ones most invested since at least twenty fifteen when russia entered the conflict so signify it's how much importance they place on this issue and on their desire to work something out among each other and also it signifies in my opinion really the difficult position turkey finds itself in they really have no avenue but to engage with the russians and the turks and the iranian government in the hope that they can convince them to clear out the i.d. or to allow them to do so and the why peavy which is their militia from the northern border of syria yet and that's an important point you make because they met to find consensus but it was clear even before the summit there were huge disagreements

especially as you say with turkey starts in the white b.g. kurdish fighters. absolutely and i really i think they're between a rock and a hard place the leverage is with the syrian regime the russians and the iranians especially with the withdrawal of u.s. forces i think is going to have discovered that he may have miscalculated by encouraging the americans to leave because now he's on his own and he simply doesn't have a lot of cards to place he needs to be in syria and the russians and the iranians and the regime likely to give him that absent serious concessions and he also needs the syrian regime and the russians to be out of it lived in order not to cause a humanitarian crisis that will send one to three million people into his country so i think turkey is in a very difficult decision and i don't i don't see a lot of movement on the issues that turkey really cares about while in terms of the other conference in poland i mean this was supposed to be about peace and

security in the middle east but it was very much about the u.s. and israel trying to gather support to isolate iran. honestly it is really i think it's a joke and i see this as somebody who was at the state department and i respect our diplomatic efforts but this was a very cynical attempt at. you know cornering iran publicly and ball string. netanyahu in the administration's. international profile and to regain some of that consensus that they lost when they backed away from the iran nuclear deal and as you can see from the presentations that germany and france sent the europeans are just not going to go along with this and they know this administration the trump administration is going to be facing elections reelections in two years and i'm i can only imagine what they're hoping for and israel's prime minister was the only

head of state to attend the summit in poland it was not unity of course for him to further normalize relations with his arab neighbors but with netanyahu running for reelection what does this conference mean for him while well in that sense netanyahu did come out i think with some positive developments and he is right these were historical meetings with you know public meetings with key arab particular gulf countries his goal is to normalize relationships or at least give the appearance of it that there are normal relationship between the arab countries and the world in israel and to ensure that israel is not diplomatically economically politically or socially isolated and he is in that regard succeeding so i am not an expert on domestic israeli politics but i cannot imagine how this would hurt him while thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much. hundreds of eisel fighters have surrendered just syrian democratic forces in the eastern region of. kurdish fighters and launched

a final push against the armed group in the village of by dues the area is the last territory that i still controls in syria thousands of people in back dues have fled to s.t.'s health decisions to escape the violence against insulting civilian men from women saving that i still find as a hiding amongst the imran khan has moved on the turkey syria border. patrols between the russians and the turkish forces began on thursday president of the on the turkish president has actually spoken and said that as a sort of corporation russia and turkey to agree to start joint patrols in order to contain radical groups his words not ours so this comes as the syrian democratic forces are still fighting the last on clay of i still fight with in the village of al. jazeera now what we're hearing is at least two hundred forty one rifle fighters have surrendered to the syrian democratic forces the estee f.

the fighters will actually be taken to a prison just outside of the village and that's well they'll be held for processing but they're all women and children women who have been married to isis fighters will be taken to a separate town we have been hearing from women and children in the process to get from the women who say that they want to return back to their hunt countries we've heard from some french women and some british women in the last coming days speaking to the media organizations now because all of a negotiation that's reportedly taking place between fighters and eisel fights is about establishing a few rights harry in croydon to allow people out yes the air forces have actually moved into the village they were in the village a few days ago fighting but now they're on the outskirts where there is shelling taking place they are putting pressure on those isis fighters claim that person as well and that's why we say number of isis fighters reportedly two hundred forty one

i survived is giving themselves up. and he as prime minister describing the bombing of a military convoy in indian administered kashmir as despicable the explosion killed at least thirty nine people in poor woman district reports multiple casualties after a blast along a highway in indian administered kashmir one of the worst attacks to hit the disputed himalayan region in almost three years according to reports the majority of those killed were indian paramilitary personnel when a car filled with explosives rammed into a military convoy in the district of full warm up the attack happened on a main road that connects the state capitol street to gar to the city of jammu pictures from the blast site showed bodies and body parts strewn across a wide area. now under very hard i was sitting inside my shop and all of a sudden an explosion happened it was very massive and felt like the building would come down i came out on saw smoke at the side of the explosion and the breeze from

vehicles in there kashmir has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred seven both countries claimed the area i think we've seen this coming. through gesture what they've been trying to get out. for the last few months especially because a couple of indigenous. groups like. there being were less contained but intense your course especially in so you know. in the last to go into tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades in the uprising against the indian administration this latest violence comes just a day after dozens of high school students were wounded when there was an explosion in their classroom in kashmir. al jazeera. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back we'll tell you why

a bus will stop building the world's biggest passenger plane plus the no. then lead having a mass prime minister suffers another defeat of a head brags that strategy. and support the reigning wimbledon champion closes in on another title under the hood a story of the back bone that stay with us. hello last active winter storm is scooted through the eastern side of cowards and now and all those snow on the ground the temperatures all that leather as well it should be but the massive cloud further west that covers the entire pacific coast has bought loads of rain as fast as san diego there's more to come of the snow a tart is a proper good winter storm which is a sort of thing you want but disappointing if you're in san francisco morning

because sunshine now there's more snow coming out of these inside accountable to get the temperatures toronto's but freezing this will be the wet stair that falls in big flakes falls on the ground doesn't last for too long there is cold return to minneapolis so the upper midwest even chicago talking about subzero by day as a max runs more snow working in it tails off a long way south probably oklahoma and beyond the dallas system enjoying the warm so twenty three degrees that snow just dip down long way then back up through the approach valley to the east once more and the cold isn't was extreme as it was it is normal winter to be honest but this is nice for the late snow in it to the south and west squat weather in the caribbean the heaviest showers have moved out of cuba towards hispan yoa now you can say something to me there could well be a wet place come friday but saturday it looks dry in fact most places are enjoying the sun.

the two thousand mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the balkans route begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian family. except perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning back to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera. when the news breaks a few minutes ago we were able to hear a huge explosion fifty people are still missing when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told we need to invest in development and you can best in making sure the people on the left behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground join us for this historic shift in american politics to bring you more award winning documentaries and life moves on and on line.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the white house says president trump will sign a compromised border security deal to avoid another government shutdown and also declare a national emergency secure the funds on his wall along the border with mexico. rival meetings have taken place to address debility in the middle east and russia's president hosted his turkish and iranian counterparts the talks and in the war in syria in warsaw the u.s. dozens of nations to further isolate iran. and a car bomb attack on a military convoy in indian administered kashmir has killed at least. four people

is the worst attack on indian forces since two thousand and two. the supreme court in venezuela is banning directors of the state run oil company from leaving the country a new board of directors was appointed on the wednesday for pet of acer and its u.s. subsidiary. a state prosecutor says he's investigating the appointments calling it an illegal power grab he says foreign ambassadors named by opposition leader i want to go but also form part of the investigation. we know president maduro has invited donald trump's new special envoy to venezuela to travel to caracas he made the announcement interview with the associated press that follows a pledge of support from the euro by about fifty member countries at the u.n. on wednesday and the venezuelan opposition was in washington to shore up support for aid to be allowed into the country it was under reports from washington. a ballroom full of diplomats to show support for venice well an opposition leader wondered why though billed as a first daniel global conference on the humanitarian crisis in venezuela and hosted

by those washington advisors diplomats from sixty countries attended most of whom recognized as president the interest in the meeting was high the organizers announced they reached one hundred million dollars in pledges in aid money but it's unclear where that money will go but one of those top advisers rejected claims that the aid is being used for political means by all sides. we're now looking there because of a teacher. maybe so much information for these. many issues we are working today this was very much a day about competing diplomacy here it was about showing support for one but in new york at the united nations the scene was much different. flanked by ambassadors from several countries that support president nicolas maduro in russia china and iran. but as well as foreign minister jorge adi as a struck

a defiant tone in venezuela there's only one government the government of press in my daughter so no one can gave that line specially this man who was self-proclaimed who self proclaimed himself as president of venezuela in the middle of a street of a demonstration was without any constitutional framework that as well as foreign minister met with the un secretary general on monday the un recognizes maduro but is calling for talks the clearer and even more serious needs to find to start serious political negotiations but it's increasingly clear both sides are committed to entrenching themselves with countries that support them rather than talks with the other side gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington. no fiber the fourteenth is known as valentine's day in some countries but for the people of paul clement florida and the u.s. it marks a day when a shoot to kill more than a dozen students at a high school is

a lot pictures of a memorial day in florida now in the years since the debate over gun laws in the whether to tighten them has continued but little has changed. it's been a year since valentine's day turned into a day of horror at stillman douglas high school a former student armed with an assault rifle opened fire on his classmates and teachers killing seventeen right here samantha grady dove behind a bookcase and lived but her best friend died beside her i do feel the question of why am i still here but because i know that i have some sort of purpose that kind of loops me going that purpose for many parklane survivors manifested in a student led movement calling for stricter gun control laws in the u.s. marches in washington and around the world garnered close to

a million supporters president donald trump met with parkinson's vive in the days after the shooting and pledged to make american schools safer and said he was unafraid to take on the powerful n.r.a. gun lobby to do it but since that washington has done little to change gun laws and now the number of americans who want stricter gun laws has fallen from seventy one percent a year ago to fifty one percent today historically we have seen after any one of these big mass tragedies that draw a lot of media attention we see a spike we see people start to care we see people say we need better policies we need better action we need more than thoughts and prayers but then as time goes on people just lose interest meanwhile twelve hundred more children have died of gun violence in the u.s. sin. parkland a project by team journalists tell the story of each a six year old shot while playing video games a three year old in

a drive by shooting how many more children have to die before we take even the most basic of steps to limit the bloodshed democrats in congress reintroduced legislation in recent days to ban the sale of high capacity magazines but in florida a new state law mandates more weapons in schools not less an armed guard is now present on every campus five mass shootings a week that is but current average in the united states according to independent data collectors the unrelenting case begs the still unanswered questions why do they keep happening and what can be done to stop them. castro al-jazeera washington. britain's prime minister terrorism may have suffered another defaced after m.p.'s rejected a motion to endorse a government's approach to briggs it may bug reports the ice of the right two hundred fifty eight in the east of the left three hundred three. a

humiliating blow for the british prime minister she hopes for a straightforward parliamentary vote reaffirming her efforts to really go shape to revise breck's a deal with brussels so they know. their names having that many m.p.'s within her own party abstained from voting. claiming the wording of her motion implied no deal directs it would be ruled out a possible no deal remains for many back city is the u.k. strongest negotiating position the prime minister was absent from the chamber the opposition labor leader wasn't the government cannot keep on ignoring parliament all plowing on towards the twenty ninth of march without a coherent. she cannot keep on just running down the cook and hoping that something will turn up that will save her day and save her face the government's initial withdrawal agreement was rejected by

a record majority of m.p.'s last month the nose to the left four hundred and thirty two forcing the prime minister back to brussels to renegotiate the controversial backstop insurance policy in the deal designed to avoid customs checks between northern ireland and the republic of ireland this latest vote isn't legally binding but it's a huge embarrassment for the government especially was trying to secure concessions from brussels. before the vote britain's breck's secretary said the government's main goal is to produce a deal to hold the pilot was. as we prepared to exit the european union this government is focused on its most pressing task to deliver a legally binding change to the back story and we are committed to delivering key demand to reserve maize promise parliament will have another chance to express its opinion on how brics it plans at the end of the month before that it's

a race against time to find fresh common ground with the e.u. . the hopes of a significant breakthrough are slim brussels insists it will not reopen the original withdrawal agreement or change its position on the irish border. theresa may still believes there's a battle to be won in brussels a growing number of british m.p.'s don't if you from europe is of a nation increasingly at odds with itself. an award winning journalist has been freed on bail in the philippines the day after she was arrested on libel charges heads the news website rappler which is known for criticizing president robbery go to ted his government she says her detention was an abuse of power and the government's trying to intimidate and silence the charges relate to an article published in twenty twelve about a businessman alleged links to organized crime well the al-jazeera program witness goes behind the scenes to him areas personal stories as she fights for democracy

justice and press freedom the documentary war on truth first airs this sunday at twenty two thirty g.m.t. . at least eight people have died and dozens more injured after a week of widespread protests in haiti the unrest was sparked by rising inflation and allegations of government corruption money has more now from port au prince. we're in downtown port au prince where people are picking up the pieces after days of on rest thousands of people took to the streets of port au prince and of practically burnt down a good section of the city a lot of this debris that you see used to be shops used to be stands this would normally be a bustling part of town with lots of commerce it's practically at a standstill today if you see down the street those are barricades that people have set up to prevent access to the to the parliament to prevent road access so people have a hard time just getting around the city the big concern right now is over further loss of life as there have been several people that have been killed already within

the context of this political crisis now the root cause of this why are people so upset a lot of it has to do with the federal. billions of dollars in money that was allocated for social development projects is simply unaccounted for so not only are haitians calling for the resignation of the president saying that they have zero confidence left in the government what they're asking for is where that money went final campaign running is a been held in nigeria ahead of saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections the youth vote is likely to play a major part in determining who women rising unemployment in the high inflation has left many young nigerians frustrated reports from bhutto. absolutely mohammed says he's voting for the first time in saturday's election but he is frustrated the twenty year old from his school and confines of work to try and survive he sells water on the street i can tell a lot of them a lot here i want the government to look after the pool and give us jobs i also

want to deal with insecurity in the country. when president muhammadu buhari won the election four years ago he promised to fix nigeria's economy it's an important issue. ninety million nigerians. extremely poor. extremely poor. it's a major concern and. millions have been out of jobs within the last four years so it's an important conversation for two thousand and nineteen. or oil rich nigeria is africa's biggest economy but that hasn't translated into jobs the majority of voters in africa's most populous nation are thirty five or younger presidential candidates promise to create more jobs if they win but some major in say they are tired of the promises they want action. you mohammed is one of those losing patience.